Spencer G. Scharff

Spencer represents and advises businesses, non-profits, and individuals in a broad range of matters in state and federal courts. In recognition of his professional achievements and reputation among peers, he has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© since 2020. In the 2024 Edition, he was recognized for Appellate Practice and Commercial Litigation.

Spencer received his bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.  Following his graduation from Penn, he received a full-tuition scholarship to attend the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude.  At Arizona, he served as an Executive Note Editor on the Arizona Law Review and the founding Editor-in-Chief on the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy.  He also received the Pima County Bar Association’s John Hawkins Professionalism Award for exceptional integrity and professionalism, and the ALI-ABA Scholarship and Leadership Award.

Spencer has served as a Part-time Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and a Faculty Associate at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Clerkships

• Hon. Andrew D. Hurwitz, Ninth Circuit

• Hon. Mary M. Schroeder, Ninth Circuit

Admissions

• Arizona

• California

• New York

• District of Columbia (inactive)

• U.S. District Court (Arizona; C.D. Cal.; N.D. Cal.; E.D. Cal.; S.D. Cal.; SDNY; EDNY)

• U.S. Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit; Second Circuit)

• Supreme Court of the United States

Education

• BA, University of Pennsylvania

• JD, University of Arizona, College of Law

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

— Justice Louis D. Brandeis